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no slop grenade: Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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God, I hate this so much. I used to frequently ask the senior engineer on my team for input on whatever I was working on, but he started just replying with copy-pasted Gemini responses.
Now I don't really ask him for input anymore.
Sounds like it's working as intended for him then.
Maybe, but I don't think his intent is to shut me up. I think he's just a true believer. I think he's honestly trying to be helpful with it.
At first I ignored that behavior, but now I respond asking them to refrain, it's ok to tell me they don't know or to tell me a hint they might know even if they don't know for sure, but I have access to the same LLMs they have and I don't need them to help with that. I tell them to just send me what they would have sent to the prompt, and if I need the LLM, I'll do it.
It's especially bad when they have zero idea and try to fake it with LLM.
If he's actually trying to be helpful, I think it's worth attempting a calm, earnest conversation about it with him explaining how this choice of his is a lost resource to you and how much you value his input over that of an algorithm.
It still may not work, but someone thinking they're doing the right thing is typically easier to persuade over someone who is maliciously trying to push you away.
Aw, that sucks to lose useful input and collaboration like that. I'm sorry. Hopefully they come back around to being a more human dev again.
I was afraid you were going to end by offering to give them a cookie recipe.